FASTtrack: Applied Pharmaceutical Practice

FASTtrack: Applied Pharmaceutical Practice
First edition
Christopher A Langley - Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice, Aston University School of Pharmacy and Dawn Belcher - Teaching Fellow, Pharmacy Practice, Aston University School of Pharmacy

Are your exams coming up? Are you drowning in textbooks and lecture notes and wondering where to begin? Take the FASTtrack route to study successfully for your examinations.

FASTtrack provides the ultimate lecture notes and is a must-have for all pharmacy students wanting to study and test themselves for forthcoming exams.

FASTtrack: Applied Pharmaceutical Practice focuses on what pharmacy students really need to know in order to pass exams providing concise, bulleted information, chapter overviews, key points, and an all-important self-assessment section which includes MCQs.

This FASTtrack book has been written to guide the student pharmacist or pharmacy technician through the main stages involved in pharmaceutical dispensing. This reference text accompanies the compulsory dispensing courses found in all undergraduate MPharm programmes and equivalent technical training courses. It is an invaluable resource either as a study aid or as a companion to the core reference text Applied Pharmaceutical Practice.

Covering all areas of the pharmacy degree, the first titles in the series include:

Applied Pharmaceutical Practice (based on the textbook of the same name)
Complementary and Alternative Medicine (based on the textbook of the same name)
Law and Ethics in Pharmacy Practice (due March 2010)
Managing Symptoms in the Pharmacy
Pharmaceutical Compounding and Dispensing (based on the textbook of the same name)
Pharmaceutics - Dosage Form and Design
Pharmaceutics - Drug Delivery and Targeting
Pharmacology
Physical Pharmacy (based on Florence & Attwood's Physicochemical Principles of Pharmacy)
Therapeutics

Visit the FASTtrack website www.fasttrackpharmacy.com for extra MCQS, sample online content and much more.

Contents:
1. Introduction and the Basics of Medicines Supply: 2. NHS Supply in the Community-prescription Forms and Prescribing: 3. NHS Supply in the Community-Prescribers and the Dispensing Process: 4. NHS Supply Within Hospitals: 5. Non-NHS Supply: 6. Controlled Drugs: 7. Emergency Supply: 8. Patient Counselling and Communication-the Basics of Patient Communication: 9. Patient Counselling and Communication-product Specific Counseling Points: 10. Poisons and Spirits: 11. Answers to Exercises: